Afghanistan: Families mourn girls killed in Kabul school blast dw.com 5/9/2021 dw.com
Afghanistan is in mourning after a bomb attack on a Kabul school killed 68 people mostly young girls. Families have begun burials for their loved ones while others continue to desperately search for missing children. © REUTERS Most of the victims of the school blasts were young girls
Bodies in wooden coffins were lowered into graves one by one at the Martyrs Cemetery, where victims of attacks against the Hazara ethnic minority community are laid to rest, French news agency AFP reported.
The death toll from Saturday s bomb attack in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood of western Kabul has surged to at least 50, officials said on Sunday.
Afghans bury dead from bloody school blasts as toll rises to 50
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Afghans mourn victims of Kabul school bomb blasts | Asia News
Dozens of young girls have been buried on a mountain top in Kabul after a secondary school was targeted for the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in more than a year.
Some out-of-school explosions on Saturday killed more than 50 people during the holiday shopping season, mostly female students, and injured more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a western district of Kabul, mostly inhabited by Hazara Shia.
The government has blamed the Taliban for the massacre, but the armed group has denied responsibility and warned that the country must “take care and take care of education centers and institutions.”
Kabul mourns as school blast death toll rises
Parents search for missing children
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion, but the Afghan government has said the Taliban were behind the blast.
The Taliban denied involvement, saying they have not carried out attacks in Kabul since February 2020, when they signed a deal with Washington agreeing to peace talks and a withdrawal of the remaining US troops.
Families, meanwhile, continue their desperate search for missing children. I rushed to the scene [after the blasts] and found myself in the middle of bodies, their hands and heads cut off and bones smashed, Mohammad Taqi, a resident of Dasht-e-Barchi, told AFP.
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Dozens of young girls were buried Sunday at a desolate hilltop cemetery in Kabul, a day after a secondary school was targeted in the bloodiest attack in Afghanistan in over a year.
A series of blasts outside the school during a peak holiday shopping period killed more than 50 people, mostly female students, and wounded more than 100 in Dasht-e-Barchi, a west Kabul suburb populated mostly by Hazara Shiites.
The government blamed the Taliban for the carnage, but the insurgents denied responsibility and issued a statement saying the nation needed to safeguard and look after educational centres and institutions .
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